March, 1910 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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you will want a "CHAMPION" Washing 

 Machine riRht off. The Momentum 

 Balance Wheel, which almost runs itselt 

 —the up-and-down stroke of the Lever, 

 which means greatest power with less 

 effort— the absolute perfection of the 

 "CHAMPION"— will make you want one 

 for your home. 



"Favorite** Churn gets all the 

 butter out of the cream. Easy to churn, 

 too. If vour dealer docs not handle 

 these home necessities, w^rite us. 7o 



DAVID MAXWELL & SONS. - ST. MARY'S. ONI. 



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Ask The 



Housewife 



Slie will tell you that 

 Windsor Salt does not get 

 "lumpy" — nor "cake" in 

 glass or silver. 



In homes of refinement, 



Windsor 

 Table Salt 



/las long been the universal 

 favorite for table and 

 culinary use. 



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barrels level hill and they have carried to 

 England with few slacks. This is a wise 

 conclusion. Many have tailed apples an 

 inch higher and in case of fine Spys when 

 opened at faced end, found them beautiful, 

 but when they got to other end of the bar- 

 rel found half a bushel rotten. This is 

 rather discouraging to the one who has paid 

 from $4.50 to $5 for same. 



Annapolis Valley East, N. S. 



Eunice WatU, A.R.H.S. 



At a meeting of the Waterville Fruit 

 Co., Ltd., it was decided to continue the 

 company and build a warehouse and the 

 members agreed to co-operate in buying 

 fertilizers. This company also intends to 

 combine with other companies in the valley 

 so that they can charter boats thus getting 

 .their fruit more cheaply into England. 



After the business meeting, Mr. L. D. 

 Robinson gave an interesting addres; which 

 covered a number of subjects including the 

 subjects of cultivation, fertilization, prun- 

 ing, spraying and thinning orchard trees, 

 and the value of humus and lime in the 

 soil. 



In the discussions that followed it was 

 concluded that orchardists nust now spray 

 at least four times in order to combat the 

 disease called the sooty or fly-speck fungus 

 which develops on Greenings, Spys, Bald- 

 wins and other apples after the third spray- 

 ing. It was estimated that during last sea- 

 son in Nova Scotia thousands of dollars 

 worth of damage had been done to apples 

 by this fungus. Api)les which were ap- 

 parently free from blemish when barrelled 

 arrived at their destination in a very spot- 

 ted condition, iiroving that the disease de- 

 veloped still more after gathering. The 

 merits of a lime and sulphur wash were dis- 

 cussed, and although this mixture has been 

 used as a fungicide in other fruit centres. 

 Nova Scotia at present is only experiment- 

 ing with it. 



On Feb. 15, a fruit growers' meeting was 

 held in Berwick, when Mr. B. H. Lee dis- 

 cussed "Some Mistaken Ideas in Raising 

 Fruit," in which he referred to mistakes in 

 mixing varieties when planting, mistakes 

 in fertilization, iiruning, wrong varieties, 

 and marketing. Mss Eunice Watts gave 

 a paper on "Beneficial Insects in Orchards," 

 mentioning bees, wasps, ichneumon flies and 

 various beneficial beetles. 



Prince Edward Island 



J. A. Moore 



The Co-operative Fruit Co., have packed 

 a lot of Ben Davis apples for .shipment to 

 the British market. They had the growers 

 take their apples to Charlottetown in bar- 

 rels and boxes and there had them repacked 

 in the company's barrels properly graded. 



It is said that a very high standard has 

 been set. One man told me he took in five 

 barrels of what he thought were No. 1 ap- 



Royal Botanic Gardens 



KEW, ENGLAND 



Office of the Curator, 

 Kew. September i jth, 190*^ 

 Mr. H. H. Groff. 



Siincoe. Ontario. Canada 



Dear Sir:— 



Your Gladioli have been and are still very much 

 admired here. The Yellows and Blues are exception- 

 ally Kood. and the named varieties, BLUi; JAY. DAWN. 

 l.A I.UNA, and PEACf. are superb. 



W. WATSON. Curator. 



CAMPBELL BROS., Simcoe, Ont. 



APHINE 



The Nev^ Insecticide 



Discovery Avhich Kills 



Plant Lice of Every 



Species 



"There was a demonstration of the 

 efficiency of this new destroyer of in- 

 sect pests on Saturday last at the new 

 seed store of the H. F. Michell Co., 

 Philadelphia. Growers had been in- 

 vited to brins" plants of all kinds 

 that were infested and see the vari- 

 ous "critters" put away in a jiffy, 

 which prediction was certainly car- 

 ried out. Martin C. Ebel, the treas- 

 urer of the Aphine Co., was the 

 demonstrator, and showed how very 

 easy it was to apply the insecticide. 

 It is not an oily, sticky, or bad 

 smelling- solution, and when applied 

 does not require washing- off, except 

 that a Rood hosing: the next day will 

 remove all insects, from which all 

 life appear to be taken with one ap- 

 plication. In this demonstration one 

 plant in particular, a ficus, was bad- 

 ly affected with the long Belgian 

 scale and mealy bug;- The Belgian 

 black scale is said to be one of the 

 toughest of the family, but in less 

 than half an hour after the applica- 

 tion the insects were easily removed 

 by wiping-, and a good stream from 

 the hose would have cleared the 

 leaves eflFectually. We congratulate 

 the Aphine Co. on the apparent suc- 

 cess of their solution as seen here, 

 for if the results attained in this 

 test will work out practically on a 

 large place, the cost of growing- 

 plants will be materially reduced, and 

 growers will have to find some other 

 'rainy day' job than gunning for 

 bugs." — "The American Florist," 

 Feb. 19, 1910. 



"Collier's Weekly" says "Aphine 

 has a future as wide and long as the 

 United States." 



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